Kurdistan

Kurdistan کوردستان  (Kurdish)
Flag of Kurdistan
Anthem:  ئەی ڕەقیب Ey Reqîb "Oh, enemy!"
Kurdish-inhabited areas (according to the CIA, 1992)[1][2]
Status	Stateless nation
Languages	Kurdish languages Zaza–Gorani languages
Demonym(s)	Kurd
Today part of	Turkey (Northern Kurdistan) Iraq (Southern Kurdistan) Iran (Eastern Kurdistan) Syria (Western Kurdistan)

Kurdistan (Kurdish: کوردستان, romanized: Kurdistan, lit. 'Land of the Kurds'; [ˌkʊɾdɪˈstɑːn] (listen)),^[3] or Greater Kurdistan,^[4][5] is a roughly defined geo-cultural region in the Middle East where the Kurds inhabit^[6] and the Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based.^[7] Geographically, Kurdistan roughly encompasses the northwestern Zagros and the eastern Taurus mountain ranges.

1. ↑ "Kurdish lands". Retrieved 6 November 2019.
2. ↑ "The Kurdish lands". Library of Congress. Retrieved 6 November 2019.
3. ↑ "Kurdistan". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 29 July 2010.
4. ↑ Turkey demands Google remove Greater Kurdistan map by Rudaw, December 25, 2018
5. ↑ Kaya, Zeynep (2020). Mapping Kurdistan: Territory, Self-Determination and Nationalism. Cambridge University Press. pp. 2, 137, 177, 197.
6. ↑ Zaken, Mordechai (2007). Jewish Subjects and Their Tribal Chieftains in Kurdistan: A Study in Survival. Leiden, The Netherlands: BRILL. pp. 1–2. ISBN 9789004161900. Kurdistan was never a sovereign state, though the area with an ethnic and linguistic majority of Kurdish population is defined as Kurdistan.
7. ↑ M. T. O'Shea, Trapped between the map and reality: geography and perceptions of Kurdistan, 258 pp., Routledge, 2004. (see p. 77)